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Entice young writers to dabble in both formal, research-based writing as well as creative writing. These open-ended exercises help kids write dialogue and exposition while crafting essays or stories.

Fun and Formal Writing

Adding dialogue to writing makes for more entertaining and relatable story-telling. In this activity, young writers will use a fun comic book format to add simple dialogue to their personal narratives.

Personal Narrative: Adding Dialogue

Whether students are revising handwritten drafts or work that has been written on the computer, this activity will serve as a resource to help your writers understand some basic word processing tools.

Word Processing Basics

Young writers will traverse the story mountain to create a narrative plot of their own! Students will consider various story elements, including characters, setting, climax, problem, and solution with this great visual aid.

Story Mountain Prewriting

In this fun essay-writing activity, young writers will complete a graphic organizer to plan their thoughts, then refer to it to write a short opinion piece about their favorite dinner.

Opinion Writing: My Favorite Food

Convince reluctant writers to pick up their pens with this fun write-it-yourself superhero comic.

Make Your Own Superhero Comic

Being able to write a strong conclusion is an essential skill for all story-tellers. With this activity, budding writers will practice this skill by writing two types of endings for their personal narratives.

Super Endings

It's time to brainstorm! Use this worksheet to help budding writers generate a list of ideas and topics for future stories, as well as give students a chance to practice their letter and word spacing.

Writing Ideas

Characters are at the very center of any story, and learning how to create dynamic characters is essential for budding writers. Your students can use this handy organizer to plan rich character development in their creative writing.

My Story's Characters

Use this graphic organizer to help students plan their personal narratives by drawing what will happen. Thinking about the beginning, middle, and end of their narratives encourages young writers to stretch out the small moments they write about.

Plan Your Narrative

The Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then strategy is a great tool to help students identify and understand story elements. In this fun brainstorming activity, budding writers will use the format to start generating a story of their own!

"Somebody Wanted" Prewriting Organizer

Writing personal narratives requires students to be able to stretch out small moments into beginnings, middles, and ends. Help your young writers practice this skill by thinking how they could stretch out a story about something related to school.

Stretching Out Small Moments: School Stories

Surprise! Young writers are prompted to write a personal narrative about a time they were surprised. Students will practice sequencing and prewriting skills as they use this fun watermelon-shaped graphic organizer to plan out their personal narrative.

Personal Narrative Organizer: Surprise!

Revision is an important skill for writers, but it can be tricky to develop. In this activity, students will practice their revision skills by adding details to make a story come to life and then rewriting their new and improved story.

Review and Revise

Writing personal narratives requires students to be able to stretch out small moments into beginnings, middles, and ends. Help your young writers practice this skill by thinking how they could stretch out a story about something they’ve done in the summer

Stretching Out Small Moments: Summer Stories

Help your students' favorite characters come to life in new adventures as student writers draft new endings to their favorite stories.

Fan Fiction Finales

This worksheet walks students through an example of how the dialogue between two or more characters can help writers change the pacing of a narrative.

Using Dialogue to Pace Your Piece

A great title hooks the audience and gives readers an idea about what they’ll be reading. With this worksheet, your writers will learn different strategies for crafting titles for any piece of writing.

Strategies for Crafting Your Title

In this lesson, your students will practice writing about places important to them through poetry. By the time they are done, students will have become better writers and taken a walk down memory lane!

State Memories

Get in the mood for Halloween with a spooky creative writing prompt. Your child will imagine and write about adventures in a haunted house!

Halloween Writing Prompt

Children must complete the missing parts of the story in this fun creative writing exercise.

Complete the Story: Fiona's Bad Day

Your student must put her creative writing skills to the test to complete the parts of the story that are missing.

Finish the Story: The Forest

This Christmas writing prompt gets your child to think about what it's like to have Santa's job. Try this Christmas writing prompt with your young writer.

Christmas Writing Prompt

Children learn how to develop the thinking skills required to move from an opinion statement to a support statement in this three-part, self-guided worksheet.

Supporting Opinions

Your students will have fun developing the setting of a story with this graphic organizer.

Writing Narratives: Plan the Setting

In this exercise, we'll practice expanding upon general concepts.

Writing Small

Upper grade students practice using transitions to craft clear and cohesive writing.

Transition Words & Phrases: Task Cards

In this exercise, students will practice writing attention-grabbing lead sentences.

Write On! Strong Lead Sentences

These example literary responses model how to cite and explain evidence to support a claim.

How to Cite Strong Evidence: Literary Response

Use these 24 cards for daily writing exercises, or hand them out to encourage variety in writing!

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